BLOODBATH, Stockholm’s shadiest death cult - with members drawn from metal luminaries Paradise Lost, Katatonia, Opeth and Craft - have released their new single 'Chainsaw Lullaby', taken from their forthcoming album The Arrow Of Satan Is Drawn.

Due for release on 26th October 2018 via Peaceville, The Arrow Of Satan Is Drawn is available to pre-order here: https://bloodbathpeaceville.lnk.to/ArrowOfSatanIsDrawnPR

Check out the video for 'Chainsaw Lullaby' here: https://youtu.be/fgsTsfvyLFo

“I wanted to keep it really simple and uncomplicated whilst retaining an evil groovy drive to make the song engage in headbanging action and sing along exercises," explains guitarist Anders 'Blakkheim' Nystrom. "Having started a ‘red’ thread, I then locked in the chainsaw concept as a dual tribute to the Boss HM-2 guitar pedal sound as well as my love for the horror slasher genre and had both the music and lyrics going at the same time. I’ve always been a fan of lyrical paradoxes and the song title was just waiting to happen.”

BLOODBATH will be playing live in Europe in November and December as they join Kreator, Dimmu Borgir & Hatebreed on the European Apocalypse tour. 

Dates:

01.12.2018 - Hamburg DE, Sporthalle 
02.12.2018 - Frankfurt DE, Jahrhunderthalle
03.12.2018 - Paris FR, L‘Olympia
04.12.2018 - Brussels BE, AB
06.12.2018 - Milan IT, Alcatraz
07.12.2018 - Munich DE, Zenith
08.12.2018 - Ludwigsburg DE, MHP Arena
09.12.2018 - Prague CZ, Forum Karlin
10.12.2018 - Zurich CH, Halle 622
12.12.2018 - Vienna AT, Gasometer
13.12.2018 - Warsaw PL, Kolo Hall 
14.12.2018 - Leipzig DE, Haus Auensee
15.12.2018 - Dusseldorf DE, Mitsubishi Electric Halle
16.12.2018 - London UK, Roundhouse 

Tickets are available here: http://europeanapocalypsetour.com

The Arrow Of Satan Is Drawn is a new slab of old-school, HM-2 driven blackness, recorded by BLOODBATH and Karl Daniel Liden, at Ghost Ward, City Of Glass & Tri-Lamb Studios, and is the second with Old Nick on vocals. If their previous Grand Morbid Funeral was a thick spray of deathly noise, The Arrow Of Satan Is Drawn is the rotten, fetid state of the world and our inevitable doom that is casting a looming shadow over proceedings. With world leaders threatening nuclear annihilation in 140 characters over social media, capitalism tearing itself apart, a wilful march into a surveillance state via handy pocket spying devices, a shifting climate that appears to literally be trying to kill us, it’s all fuelled BLOODBATH's newest ode to filth.

BLOODBATH are:

Old Nick – vocals
Blakkheim – guitar
Lord Seth – bass
Joakim – guitar
Axe - drums

For further information:
https://bloodbath.biz/
https://www.facebook.com/bloodbathband/
https://twitter.com/BloodbathBand

New album Compiler Optimization Techniques released 2nd November

French musical radicals THE ALGORITHM have released new single 'Binary Space', taken from the upcoming album Compiler Optimization Techniques.

Listen here: https://youtu.be/bzczKgWkobQ

Set for release on 2nd November, Compiler Optimization Techniques is THE ALGORITHM's fourth studio album. Mastermind Rémi Gallego comments:

"When I first started my journey making music as The Algorithm, I always had in mind making a record that would tell the story of my own self-development. A rich and cohesive set of pieces that put together would transmit the visceral need I have for open-mindedness and growth of the mind in musical form.

"Back then, I simply didn't know how to make a record like this. Today, Compiler Optimization Techniques is the execution of this idea, with the years, experience, and emotions that refined its core direction."

Compiler Optimization Techniques track-listing:

1. Cluster [11:43]
2. Fragmentation [7:29]
3. Superscalar [7:29]
4. Binary Space [6:43]
5. Sentinel Node [9:24]

Pre-order Compiler Optimization Techniqueshere: https://intothealgorithm.bandcamp.com/album/compiler-optimization-techniques
 
Armed with drummer Jean Ferry, THE ALGORITHM will defend their impressively demonstrate genre mash on tour in November, with a brand new live shows involving guitars, bass, synths, drums in an hypnotic performance, delivering a one-of-a-kind musical and visual experience.

Tour dates:

13.11. The Fleece, Bristol (UK)
14.11. Asylum 2, Birmingham (UK)
15.11. Rescue Rooms, Nottingham (UK)
16.11. Satans Hollow, Manchester (UK)
17.11. Garage Attic, Glasgow (UK)
18.11. Borderline, London (UK)
20.11. Merleyn, Nijmegan (NL)
21.11. Patronaat, Haarlem (NL)
22.11. Yuca, Cologne (DE)
23.11. Indra, Hamburg (DE)
24.11. Musik & Frieden, Berlin (DE)
25.11. Futurum, Prague (CZ)

Purchase tickets here: http://www.the-algorithm.net/blog/2018/9/19/uk-and-european-tour

THE ALGORITHM fuse modern metal riffs and rhythms with a menagerie of electronic sub-genres such as dubstep, chiptune and breakcore to concoct their own style of fiercely heavy music. 

Acclaimed world-wide, THE ALGORITHM received the Metal Hammer Golden Gods Award for “Best Underground Act” in 2013, has performed at key festivals including Download Festival (UK) and Big Day Out Festival (AU), and have toured alongside Enter Shikari, TesseracT, The Qemists, and more.

Debut album Fire By The Silos released 2th November
headline tour commences 6th November

Brighton UK progressive trio TOSKA have released an impressive drum playthrough video for new song 'Congress', taken from their highly anticipated debut album Fire By The Siloson set for release on 2nd November.

Premiered via Gear Gods, check out Ben Minal's impressive chops here: https://youtu.be/fuVaL0GqTuk

The band embark on their fast-selling headline tour across the UK and Europe in November. See below for dates.

Formed in Brighton in 2015 by three musicians who set out to write music without boundaries, TOSKA have been making huge waves in progressive and muso circles since their inception. Together they bring an impressive range of skill, experience and knowledge to create music that’s both intellectually stimulating, but also highly accessible.

Taking influence from a huge span of music including Karnivool, SikTh, Hans Zimmer, Thomas Newmann and Gustav Holst, TOSKA use vast dynamics and obscure chord voicing to convey a very emotional and cinematic tonality. It’s almost impossible to pin a genre tag on them, but words such as prog, metal, post-rock and math-rock could be used to describe their sonic elements.

The success of 2016's EP Ode To The Author launched the band onto the live circuit earning them tours in the UK & Europe with the likes of Black Peaks and Arcane Roots and slots at ArcTanGent and UK Tech Fest. The band are now ready to step their game up another notch with debut album Fire By The Silos, a concept album with many twists, turns; a stunning musical journey packed with depth and colour, with a slightly sinister undertone.

The band explain: “Fire By The Silos is a concept album. An idea grown from social observation; looking at humans, aspects of the world, and the direction we’re going in. It’s set in the near future and focuses specifically on a person affected by great political and economic change, forced to lose everything. Fire By The Silos attempts to describe the psychological and emotional torment that takes”.

The members of TOSKA have a strong presence in the music scene in their own right and have amassed huge YouTube followings. Combining their collective fanbases, guitarist Rabea Massaad (192k subscribers), drummer Ben Minal (32K subscribers), drummer Dave Hollingworth (13K subscribers), plus the many fans they’ve picked up on  the road, TOSKA are rapidly becoming the UK’s most talked about instrumental act.

Headline tour dates:

06-Nov    Manchester, Satan's Hollow
07-Nov    Glasgow, Garage Attic
08-Nov    Sheffield, Record Junkie
09-Nov     London, Boston Music Rooms
10-Nov     Birmingham, Flapper 
12-Nov    Hamburg, Headcrash
13-Nov    Berlin, Musik & Frieden
14-Nov    Munich, Feierwerk
15-Nov    Cologne, MTC
16-Nov    Baden, Werkk Kulturlokal
17-Nov    Paris, Olympic Cafe
18-Nov    Brighton, The Haunt

facebook.com/officialtoska
instagram.com/officialtoska
youtube.com/rabeaafro
youtube.com/livelearndrum
youtube.com/davehollingworth

News on debut album coming soon

Metallic hardcore's finest newcomers ITHACA are excited to announce their signing to one of heavy music's premier forward-thinking labels - Holy Roar Records.

The band will be releasing news on their debut album shortly.

Formed out of a mutual love of metallic hardcore but despair at its lack of ambition, ITHACA draw influence from everything from Southern doom to 90's math rock as well as the untethered savagery of early Poison The Well and melodious battery of Oathbreaker.

The result is crushing grooves and shrieking guitar squalls that give way to haunting melodic passages and desolate reprieves. The debut album will be the band's most ambitious and emotionally raw material to date, following from their 2015 Trespassers EP (COF Records/Soaked in Torment).

For more information:

http://www.holyroarrecords.com/news
https://www.facebook.com/IthacaUK/
https://ithacauk.bandcamp.com/

New album Fervor to be released on 9th November 2018
 

COLD NIGHT FOR ALLIGATORS have released the second single 'Violent Design' from their upcoming album Fervor. The video exclusively premiered via Everything Is Noise (former ItDjents) last Friday, 12th October, and the single is available on all download/streaming platforms.

Watch 'Violent Design' here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvjJUCq-OGw

The band comments on 'Violent Design':
'When writing this song, we quickly came up with the idea of structure it into two different universes. The first part of the song is very aggressive and dark whereas the second part is much more melodic with grandly choruses, clean vocals etc. The structure seems a bit black and white which has been united in the theme for the video as well.'

COLD NIGHT FOR ALLIGATORS are a respected and forward-thinking progressive metal outfit from Copenhagen, Denmark. Swaying the world with their innovative take on technical metalcore and playing numerous shows including Euroblast, UK Tech-Fest, and even the far east of India, these guys are no freshmen.

Their upcoming sophomore album Fervor proves just that. Fervor is a further development of their brutal and uncompromising debut Course of Events, which was hailed for its edge and originality. Now three years later the band is stepping up their game with more focus on songwriting and showcasing a mature, more emotional take on progressive metal.

There is a lot to love on the upcoming record Fervor. Whether it’s vocalist Johan’s passionate choruses about the darker things in life, or the out-of-this-world guitar work, you can be assured that if you like your music challenging and catchy, this album is for you.

Coming out of a flourishing Danish metal scene, bringing that certain nordic noir to the table, COLD NIGHT FOR ALLIGATORS bring forth a style that you might recognize, but
you sure as hell haven’t experienced like this before.

Pre-order Fervor here: https://coldnightforalligators.lnk.to/Fervor

TRACKLISTING:
1. Violent Design
2. Drowning Light
3. Canaille
4. Black Swan
5. Nocturnal
6. Entangled
7. Get Rid Of The Walls
8. Wilderness
9. The Proposition
10. Soulless City (feat. Andreas Bjulver Paarup of Cabal)
11. Coloured Bones
12. Infatuated

'Stand Tall' to be released 26th October 2018
Band announce two shows with Dead Like Juliet

Italian metallers ELYNE have announced their new single 'Stand Tall', due 26th October.

The band will also be playing two shows with Dead Like Juliet in Italy:

October 26th: Cantù, Shabba Club
October 27th: Porto Potenza, DaMonstas

PreSave the single on Spotify now: http://smarturl.it/StandPreSave

Forming in 2013, ELYNE immediately found themselves touring, including shows with Chelsea Grin, Architects, Sworn In, and Being As An Ocean. In 2015 the band released the single 'Frames' and went on their first European headline tour, before releasing their second full length Alibi in April 2017, which reached #3 on the national Metal iTunes Chart.

The release of Alibi saw ELYNE play Home Festival (100,000 attendance) for the first time, one of Italy's largest music festivals, before ending the year with Of Mice & Men. 

Following the release of the highly anticipated new single 'Stand Tall' the band will tour across Europe and beyond. Dates to be announced soon.

LINKS: ​www.elyneofficial.com
Facebook: ​www.facebook.com/elyneofficial
Instagram:​ www.instagram.com/elyneofficial
Twitter:​ www.twitter.com/elyneofficial
Youtube:​ www.youtube.com/c/elyneofficial

The video marks one year as a band

New progressive trio EXPLORING BIRDSONG have released a video for their single 'The Baptism', marking one year as a band and since the first release of the track, their debut single.

Animated by Emmett Elvin of psychedelic rock band Knifeworld, the stunning new video can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdvbH49oOd8

Embed code: <iframe width="806" height="453" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jdvbH49oOd8" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Watch 'The Baptism' video here

EXPLORING BIRDSONG are a unique proposition: Matt Harrison on drums, Jonny Knight on bass/second keys, and completed by Lynsey Ward's piano and stunning vocals. Pop sensibilities and soulfully gorgeous singing meet progressive compositions, reminiscent of Iamthemorning, Steven Wilson, Kate Bush and more.

A trio starting to turn heads, EXPLORING BIRDSONG have just completed their October tour with proggers Godsticks and as hand-picked support for Sleep Token's sold-out inaugural headliner. Supported by Kerrang! Radio, Kerrang! Magazine, Classic Rock Magazine, Prog, and more, EXPLORING BIRDSONG are quickly marking themselves as a group to watch.

Watch the band's first video and second single 'The Downpour' here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kZ4cNKIPfE

See the band live:

Saturday 17th November: HRH Prog, Pwllheli

For more information:
https://www.facebook.com/ExploringBirdsong/
https://www.twitter.com/ExBirdsong
https://www.instagram.com/exploringbirdsong/

You Are Creating released 23rd November via Long Branch Records

Following their European tour with Leprous and Agent Fresco, Norwegian progressive rock band 22 are back with new single 'Call Me Trimtab', taken from the double album You Are Creating, which will be released on 23rd November via Long Branch Records.
 
Watch the video for 'Call Me Trimtab' here: https://youtu.be/D2D2AD4IkZA

Guitarist Magnus Børmark commented on 'Call Me Trimtab':
"Call me trimtab is a song about pushing oneself, working hard to create something original, to manifest visions that no one else but you have. I’ve taken the liberty to use the American pioneer, architect, futurist, inventor Buckminster Fuller’s life and concepts as a basis for the lyric. He was born in 1895, and coined concepts such as Spaceship Earth, Geodesic Domes, Dymaxion Cars and Dwelling Machines (futuristic aluminum houses); focusing, in his own very original and playful way, on humanity being radically more energy efficient as we enter the future. 

"He was a big proponent of polyphasic sleeping. That means taking short 30 min naps 4 times a day instead of sleeping many hours every night. This gave him more time to work, study and create more. I myself, will also shift in to polyphasic sleeping when workin on intense projects as producing a new record or composing new music, and it works well for me, although I don’t function that well socially in those periods.

"He aimed at creating solutions and designs for mankind that would enable man to live in a more 'effortless state', and at the same time he worked his ass off making these inventions. 

"A trimtab is a tiny rudder on ships and airplanes that sets the default “hands off” steering direction, reducing, when correctly dialled, the amount of force needed to keep the vehicle moving in a straight direction, to none. It is a symbol of a very light action that can create big movements. On Buckminster’s gravestone it reads 'Call Me Trimtab'."

22 have defined their own musical domain as an eclectic, melodic, energetic and stadium-appealing progressive rock outfit. You Are Creating is a conceptual album divided into two limbs, making it up to the listener to create a whole of these two parts, trusting the active participation of the listener. 

You Are Creating is an assertion made by 22 that the listener is the one creating the effects of the music they are hearing. Pitch and rhythm in different arrangements (songs) are just tools provided by the artist, which the listener utilises and thus creates the experience of music. 

The band claim that it is not the artist’s stories and emotions that are “given” to the listener. The listener uses music actively to explore their own emotional, mental and spiritual realms. Therefore, music is able to create experiences on such an intimate and personal level, having millions of different people from different cultures thinking: “they are singing about my life!” or “that’s exactly how I feel” in response to hearing the exact same recording of the exact song. Consciously or not, humans use music to explore their own life, world and being.

Every song on You Are Creating is made with the above-mentioned mechanism as an all-permeating creative principle.

You Are Creating is available in the following editions:

- LBR CD+T-Shirt Bundle
- LBR LP+T-Shirt Bundle
- Double Gatefold LP incl. Limb1 on mint coloured vinyl and Limb2 on purple coloured vinyl, printed innersleeves and download code
- 2CD Digipak
- Digital (as single albums "You Are Creating: Limb1" & "You Are Creating: Limb2")

You Are Creating is available for pre-order here: https://22.lnk.to/youarecreating 

PHOXJAW have revealed 'Lottery', the latest single from their debut EP Goodbye Dinosaur... which is due for release on 16th November 2018. 

Played by Daniel P. Carter on the Radio 1 Rock Show last night, check out 'Lottery' here: https://youtu.be/6tw8x8kto9Y

Pre-orders of Goodbye Dinosaur... are available here: https://tinyurl.com/PhoxjawDinosaur

PHOXJAW will tour in support of Pagan in November, concluding the run with three headline shows.  

Full live dates:

18.11.2018 - Bristol, Crofters Rights (w/ Haggard Cat)
20.11.2018 - London, Old Blue Last (w/ Pagan)  
21.11.2018 - Bristol, Mothers Ruin (w/ Pagan) 
22.11.2018 - Manchester, Satans Hollow (w/ Pagan) 
23.11.2018 - Leeds, Key Club (w/ Pagan) 
24.11.2018 - Birmingham, The Actress & Bishop (w/ Pagan) 
25.11.2018 - Milton Keynes, Craufurd Arms (w/ Pagan) 
27.11.2018 - Bournemouth, The Anvil (w/ Pagan) 
28.11.2018 - Plymouth, Underground (headline)
29.11.2018 - Falmouth, Jacobs Ladder (headline)
30.11.2018 - Truro, The Office (headline)

Formed during the summer of 2016, Bristol based rock outfit PHOXJAW have already started making waves with their gargantuan riffs and infectious melodies, quickly selling out of copies of their debut double A-side single Spin Club/Victorian Dolls which was released via Pale Wizard Recordings on limited 10” vinyl. The momentum continued with follow-up single 'Triceratops', which caught the attention of Total Guitar Magazine, Headline Magazine, Kerrang! Radio, Scuzz TV, BBC Introducing and more. 

In the short time since their inception, the band have already shared stages across the UK with renowned acts such as Black Foxxes, Black Tusk and Avon (Alfredo Hernandez of Queens of the Stone Age), as well as being personally invited to perform at 2000trees Festival.
 
While possessing a sound all of their own, PHOXJAW have been compared to the likes of At The Drive-In and Cave In, owing to their melodic tenacity and driving riffs, mixed with their ferocious energy on stage - establishing the outfit as a true force to be reckoned with.

PHOXJAW are:

Danny Garland - vocals/bass
Josh Gallop - guitar
Kieran Gallop - drums
Huw Allen - keys/synth

For more information:
https://www.facebook.com/phoxjawofficial/
https://twitter.com/phoxjaw
https://phoxjaw.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/phoxjaw/